On Saturday night, the streets of New York will be filled to the brim with costumed faces ready to celebrate the weekend of Halloween in their best finery. But outside of Madison Square Garden, almost 21,000 artfully-dressed Harry Styles fans will clog the streets, dressed to the nines in what […]
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Alber Elbaz honoured at Love Brings Love fashion show
Demi Moore and her daughter Scout Willis were among those in attendance at the Love Brings Love fashion show in honour of the late Alber Elbaz. © Bang Showbiz Alber Elbaz The acclaimed designer died in Paris, aged 59, from COVID-19 in April, and on Tuesday night (05.10.21), Paris Fashion […]
James Corden has made a #Girlboss fairytale only a voracious capitalist could love
Dir: Kay Cannon. Starring: Camila Cabello, Idina Menzel, Minnie Driver, Nicholas Galitzine, Billy Porter, Pierce Brosnan. PG, 115 mins. Amazon’s new take on an old, perennial fairytale supposedly sprang forth from the imagination of one James Corden. That is, if you consider the words “Cinderella, but she’s a girlboss” meaty […]
Jenifer Lewis Replaces Cybill Shepherd on Vanessa Bayer’s Showtime Comedy ‘I Love This for You’
“Black-ish” star Jenifer Lewis has been cast as a lead alongside Vanessa Bayer and Molly Shannon on the upcoming Showtime comedy series “I Love This for You,” filling a role previously held by the now-exited Cybill Shepherd. Inspired by Bayer’s own story of overcoming childhood leukemia, “I Love This for You” […]
Over 25 years, Umbrella Cover Museum showered with love
Judy Monroe has been dealing with a lot of sobering, big-picture stuff lately. She’s president and chief executive officer of the CDC Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports the work of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The pandemic and all its impacts have been heavy on her […]
NYCB return to SPAC an intimate love letter to fans
SARATOGA SPRINGS — Classical story ballets, like “Swan Lake” and “The Sleeping Beauty,” are usually all about glamour and spectacle. There are glittering costumes, elaborate sets, a full orchestra in the pit and a series of romantic pas de deux, interspersed with party scenes populated by dozens of corps members. […]
New boutique is labor of love for Kewanee business owner
A former Chicago resident chased her dream all the way to Kewanee, recently opening a women’s clothing shop, Blissful Branch Boutique, inside Heartfelt Gifts. Tiffany Rowden’s path that led her from the big city to Kewanee was anything but a straight line, but the end result fulfilled a lifelong dream […]
25 Black-Owned Skincare, Hair and Makeup Brands We Love
Black culture has informed and inspired the beauty space for decades—a fact that we need to celebrate and sustain. Now and forever. That’s why supporting the Black community and Black-owned businesses is important right now and going forwards. There is a need and an opportunity to supply this kind of […]
Beauty supply store empowers Black children to love their hair
CLIFTON PARK — When Stefanie Thomas was growing up in a predominately white neighborhood in Glens Falls she had to drive over forty-five minutes to find hair products for her kinky curly hair. “Growing up I didn’t know what to do with my hair,” Thomas said. “My mother’s white and […]
Free clothes instead of books: Woman creates ‘Love Locker’
March 20, 2021Updated: March 20, 2021 1:37 p.m. Caley Mehs stands in front of a “Love Locker” at the Fife Lake library in Fife Lake, Mich., Tuesday, March 16, 2021. The locker offers free seasonal clothing for those in need. Mehs hopes to build more in the Traverse City region. (Mike […]